“But when we see a trend that goes on for four months, there must be something to it. And that’s exactly what’s been happening to Twitter (Twitter): according to Compete, it has flatlined for the last four months, showing absolutely no growth as far as uniques, visits, or rank go. And it’s not just Compete: Quantcast paints pretty much the same picture, and Twitter CEO Evan Williams has recently admitted that their traffic has stalled in the US.”

Schroeder is stumped by this:In some ways, Twitter is more mainstream than Facebook (Facebook). And yet Facebook is growing again (despite its huge audience size), and Twitter is not. You can chalk it up to Miley Cyrus’ departure, to some cosmic anomaly, or you could just say that Twitter was always too geeky for the wide mainstream audience. But it’s odd for a service to grow so explosively and to be featured in the media so much, and then to stop growing all at a sudden without a clear reason.

Allow me to explainTwitter was meant to be a guerilla social network, for people on the go, moving around, and keeping their peeps informed. Once it became co-opted by marketing departments, advertising agencies, promotions people and geeky shut-ins who sit on their ass all day sending out hyperlinks, it went into the crapper.

I, by the way, am guilty of all of the aforementioned crimes against Twitter. I will probably tweet a link to this blog shortly after it appears on mySA. I’m happy to provide blog entries with built-in irony.

Anywho…long story short…once Twitter entered the office, it began a slow descent into lameness. That is Facebook territory.

Basically, loons think the world will end in 2012. The Mayans predicted stuff and their calendar ends in 2012. That’s it. That’s the basis of this doomsday scenario. Yes, it’s flimsier than Kim Kardashian’s blouses, but there it is.